Comment by mike_hearn
Comment by mike_hearn 2 months ago
It can't lose them revenue. Serving queries is expensive, getting rid of bots yields immediate and direct savings measured in $$$
Comment by mike_hearn 2 months ago
It can't lose them revenue. Serving queries is expensive, getting rid of bots yields immediate and direct savings measured in $$$
Sorry, you're right, I didn't read your comment closely enough.
I was using the word "revenue" very deliberately. Savings don't increase revenue.
The GP's argument was that this was about "squeezing out more profit from that supposed 0.1% of users". That can't be an argument about resource savings. The resource savings come from not serving bots, not from blocking legitimate users who happen to have disabled JS.